Man wakes up to find SUV afire

Posted: Friday, September 25, 2009

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A Winterville man woke up early Thursday morning to find his Jeep engulfed in flames, according to Athens-Clarke police.

The man was awakened by a popping sound about 3:30 a.m., looked out the window of his house on the 1300 block of Athens Road and saw his 1993 Jeep Cherokee on fire in the backyard, according to a police report. The man woke his girlfriend and ran outside to put out the fire with a water hose, the report said. The cause of the fire was not determined.